Of course, it's actually to a scale of 1:40 (near as damn it). I was working on a scale drawing recently for an IT room reconstruction at work. It struck me just how easy it is when you convert all the measurements to mm, i.e. 7.1 m = 7100 mm etc To work out a convenient scale for printing on A4 I decided to make 7 m fill a reasonable portion of the 210 mm width. Well, at 1:100 it would be 70 mm, a bit small so I doubled the scale to 1:50. At 140 mm that left a reasonable margin of 35 mm either side, so I settled on that. I did the drawing using Macromedia Freehand. With that you can place objects on the page and enter the image size in mm manually rather than rely on dragging the mouse. It all proved very easy indeed - just divide all the real work measurements by 50. Compare that with having to do it ft, ins etc! Phil Hall -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Ressel Sent: 25 April 2006 13:31 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:36644] Goofy metric scale
Heres a good one: Shop drawings for a small retaining wall, the scale shown on the plans: 1"= 1 meter. We checked with a scale, it is not a typo! Yiekes Howard Ressel Project Design Engineer, Region 4 (585) 272-3372
